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BIS ............................................................................................................................page 5BR Klassik ...................................................................................................................page 6Capriccio .................................................................................................................. page 14Cedille Records .......................................................................................................... page 15Champs Hill Records .....................................................................................................page 9Chandos .....................................................................................................................page 4Claudio Records ...........................................................................................................page 9Concerto Classics ....................................................................................................... page 15Coro...........................................................................................................................page 6CPO ........................................................................................................................ page 6,7 Delos ....................................................................................................................... page 15Divine Art ................................................................................................................. page 15Divox ....................................................................................................................... page 16Dynamic ................................................................................................................... page 16Genuin Classics ............................................................................................................page 9Globe Music .............................................................................................................. page 13Gramola.................................................................................................................... page 16Grand Piano .............................................................................................................. page 17Hyperion ....................................................................................................................page 3LPO ...........................................................................................................................page 7Melodiya .................................................................................................................. page 10Obsidian .....................................................................................................................page 7Oehms Classics .......................................................................................................... page 10Ondine ..................................................................................................................... page 13Opera Rara ..................................................................................................................page 7Orchid Classics ............................................................................................................page 8Orfeo ....................................................................................................................... page 17Paladino Music .......................................................................................................... page 10Profil ....................................................................................................................... page 17Resonus Classics ..........................................................................................................page 8SDG ...........................................................................................................................page 8Seventh Art............................................................................................................... page 13Somm ........................................................................................................................page 8Sono Luminus............................................................................................................ page 18Stone Records ........................................................................................................... page 11SWR Music ................................................................................................................ page 18Tactus ...................................................................................................................... page 11Toccata Classics ......................................................................................................... page 11Tudor ....................................................................................................................... page 12Wergo ...................................................................................................................... page 12

DVDsBelair Classiques ........................................................................................................ page 18BR Klassik ................................................................................................................. page 13C Major Entertainment ................................................................................................ page 19Dynamic ................................................................................................................... page 18Opus Arte ................................................................................................................. page 12

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Amy BEACH, Cécile CHAMINADEDorothy HOWELLPiano Concertos

Danny DriverBBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Rebecca Miller

International Women’s Day falls on 8 March, celebrating the ‘social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women’. Volume 70 in our Romantic Piano Concerto series champions three female composers, and three works whose in-the-face-of-it-all joie de vivre makes them irresistibly worthy of our attention.

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Beneath the Northern StarThe rise of English polyphony, 1270-1430

The Orlando Consort

This new album from The Orlando Consort charts the radical development of music between the late-thirteenth and mid-fifteenth centuries, and the transition from what is, in essence, embellished chant, to the extraordinary mathematical intricacies of experimental polyphony.

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Béla BARTÓKSonata for two pianos and percussion & other piano music

Cédric Tiberghien

A welcome return to the piano music of Béla Bartók and a programme that includes the popular Sonatina, the aggressively experimental Op. 18 Études and the Piano Sonata of 1926, the composer’s ‘year of the piano’. Cédric Tiberghien is then joined by François-Frédéric Guy, Colin Currie and Sam Walton for the Sonata for two pianos and percussion—a high-spirited conclusion to this successful mini-series.

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Alexander BORODINPiano Quintet & String Quartet No. 2

Goldner String Quartet, Piers Lane

Russia in the nineteenth century had little need for chamber music, but out of this very isolation came a small, but nonetheless mighty, handful of works: those by Borodin are among the finest. Piers Lane and the Goldner String Quartet revel in what they find.

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4 MARCH 2017

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Sir Arthur SULLIVANSongs

Shakespearean settings, Famous poets, Songs to words by Lionel Lewin, The beginning, Tennyson, The ‘Liederkreis’ of Sullivan and Tennyson, Songs from the stage, Songs in foreign tongues, Others

Mary Bevan, Ben Johnson, Ashley Riches, David Owen Norris

This exceptional recording gathers the finest young vocal talents in a unique programme of songs by Sullivan, many of them very rarely recorded. Currently widely acclaimed for key operatic title roles in the UK and abroad, the soprano Mary Bevan, tenor Ben Johnson, and bass-baritone Ashley Riches – who here appears on Chandos for the first time – span fifty years of Arthur Sullivan’s large non-operatic vocal output.

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British Tone Poems, Vol. 1Frederic AUSTIN (1872-1952): Spring Sir Granville BANTOCK (1868-1946): The Witch of Atlas William ALWYN (1905-1985): Blackdown Henry Balfour GARDINER (1877-1950): A Berkshire Idyll Ivor GURNEY (1890-1937): A Gloucestershire Rhapsody Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958): The Solent

BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Rumon Gamba

Alongside their British Isles Overtures series, the BBC NOW and the conductor Rumon Gamba launch a project to bring often neglected symphonic poems by British composers to wider attention and fame.

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Franz LISZTFrom Années de Pèlerinage: Italie, S 161: 1. Sposalizio, 2. Il penseroso, 3. Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa, 5. Sonetto; 104 del Petrarca ‘Gretchen’, S 513, from Eine Faust-Symphonie; Bagatelle sans tonalité, S 216a; Nuages gris, S 199; La lugubre gondola I, S 200 / 1; Deuxième Valse oubliée, S 215 / 2

Richard WAGNERElegie in A flat major, WWV 93

WAGNER, trans. Zoltán KOCSISEinleitung zu ‘Tristan und Isolde’, WWV 90

WAGNER, trans. LISZTIsoldens Liebestod aus ‘Tristan und Isolde’, S 447

Imogen Cooper

After highly successful recordings of works by Brahms, the Schumanns, and Chopin, Imogen Cooper plunges into the world of another great romantic, Franz Liszt, and places him alongside that other giant, Richard Wagner.

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Charles IVES (1874-1954)

Orchestral Works, Vol. 3Orchestral Set No. 2; Symphony No. 3 ‘The Camp Meeting’; Symphony No. 4

Jean-Efflam BavouzetMelbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis

For this third volume in an Ives series that Sir Andrew Davis and his Melbourne Orchestra have already made globally popular, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet takes on the challenge of the solo piano part in Charles Ives’ Symphony No. 4.

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Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750)

Masaaki Suzuki plays Bach Organ Works, Vol. 2Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV 541; Chorale preludes ‘Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier’, BWV 730 & BWV 731; Concerto in D minor, BWV 596, after Antonio Vivaldi; Chorale partita on ‘Sei gegrüßet, Jesu gütig’, BWV 768; Concerto in C major, BWV 594, after Antonio Vivaldi; Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 547

Masaaki Suzuki

Masaaki Suzuki originally trained as an organist, and began working as such at the age of twelve. When Volume 1 of this series reached reviewers around the world, it was something of a revelation to many, perhaps because of his previous achievements, primarily in his complete series of Bach’s sacred cantatas. The disc went on to be named Record of the Month in BBC Music Magazine, Diapason d’Or in Diapason and Recording of the Month in Gramophone.

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Heroines of Love and LossPURCELL: Oh! lead me to some peaceful gloom; Dido’s Lament; BENNET: Venus’ Birds; STROZZI: L’Eraclito amoroso; Lamento: Lagrime mie; SESSA: Occhi io vissi di voi; ANON.: The Willow Song; O death, rock me asleep; CACCINI: Lasciatemi qui solo; VIZZANA: O magnum mysterium; VIVALDI: Cello Sonata in G minor; PICCININI: Ciaccona; KAPSBERGER: Toccata Arpeggiata

Ruby Hughes, Jonas Nordberg, Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann

The women appearing in this programme range from the Virgin Mary and Dido, queen of Carthage, to Shakespeare’s Desdemona. But the disc also features four other heroines – the Italian composers Claudia Sessa, Francesca Caccini, Lucrezia Vizzana and Barbara Strozzi. Ruby Hughes has a special love for the constellation of lute, cello and voice. With Jonas Nordberg and Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann – who also contribute instrumental solos – she revels in the dramatic and expressive potential offered by this trio combination.

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Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1897)

Piano Music, Vol. 4Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35; Ballades, Op. 10; Two Rhapsodies, Op. 79; Piano Pieces, Op. 119

Jonathan Plowright

The theme of Paganini’s 24th Caprice for solo violin has tempted a number of composers to elaborate on it – from Liszt to Lutosławski and Andrew Lloyd Webber. In 1863, Johannes Brahms was one of the first to take on the challenge, with his virtuosic Paganini Variations; the demands that they place on the performer is, perhaps, the reason why Brahms organized his 28 variations into two books of 14. For the fourth instalment in his series of Brahms’s piano music, Jonathan Plowright has chosen to place the two books at either end of the programme. Between them we are presented with works spanning almost 40 years of Brahms’s life.

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loves me… loves me not…GLUCK & MOZART Arias

Camilla TillingMusica Saeculorum, Philipp von Steinaecker

With her new disc Camilla Tilling presents a near-comprehensive catalogue of the emotions that the vagaries of love can raise in the breast of an operatic heroine. She is partnered by Philipp von Steinaecker and his Musica Saeculorum, whose period instruments bring out all the sweetness, pain and regret that Gluck and Mozart magically worked into their scores.

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Ludwig van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)

Complete Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 15: ‘Diabelli’33 Veränderungen über einen Walzer von Anton Diabelli (‘Diabelli Variations’), Op. 120; 6 National Airs with Variations, Op. 105

Ronald Brautigam

The last large-scale piano work by Beethoven, the Diabelli Variations form a fitting close to Ronald Brautigam’s traversal of the complete solo piano music. ‘A Beethoven player whose musical discernment is a constant source of wonderment’ (International Record Review), Brautigam has, in the course of this series, performed works composed between 1783 and 1825. On the present disc we hear a copy of a 4-stringed fortepiano by Conrad Graf from 1822 - similar to Beethoven’s own instrument.

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Jean SIBELIUS (1865-1957): Kullervo, Op. 7; Finlandia, Op. 26

Olli KORTEKANGAS (b. 1955): Migrations

Lilli Paasikivi, Tommi Hakala, YL Male Voice Choir, Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä

‘The Great Migration’ – as it is sometimes called – of Finns to the United States began some 150 years ago. Many of them settled in the Mid-West, and especially in the so-called ‘Finn Hook’, consisting of parts of Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin. To celebrate this, the Minnesota Orchestra under its Finnish music director Osmo Vänskä commissioned the composer Olli Kortekangas to compose a work on the theme of migration, of a scale and nature suitable for performance alongside Jean Sibelius’s great Kullervo. Discovering the work of the Minnesota-based poet Sheila Packa, herself of Finnish descent, Kortekangas composed Migrations for mezzosoprano, male voice choir and orchestra, the same forces as in Kullervo, with the exception of the baritone soloist in that work. An all-star Finnish cast – soloists Lilli Paasikivi and Tommi Hakala and the celebrated YL Male Voice Choir – joined the Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä for three concerts in February 2016. Captured by a recording team from BIS the memorable performances can now be enjoyed by a wider audience.

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6 MARCH 2017

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Emmerich KÁLMÁNDie Bajadere, Operetta in three actsAlfred Grünwald, Heike Susanne Daum, Rainer Trost, Anke Vondung, Stephan Genz, Miljenko Turk, Christian Sturm, Dirk Schmitz, Ulrich Hielscher, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, WDR Funkhausorchester Köln, Richard Bonynge

Emmerich Kálmán’s music fuses Hungarian folk melodies and the Viennese waltz, offering exotic tonal colours like those of the tárogató, and rhythms designed to evoke faraway climes. This work numbers among the highlights in Kálmán’s operetta oeuvre. In 2014 the WDR presented a concert performance of The Bayadere and then went on to produce this work in the studio. We are happy and proud now to be able to release this benchmark production on CPO.

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Ferdinand RIESComplete Chamber Music for Flute & String Trio, Vol. 1Quartet for flute, violin, viola & violoncello in D minor, WoO 35,1; Trio for violin, viola & violoncello in E flat major WoO 70,1; Quartet for flute, violin, viola & violoncello in C major, Op. 145, 1

Ardinghello Ensemble

As in his symphonies and string quartets, Ries proves himself to be an entirely independent and original composer in his works for flute. The Ardinghello Ensemble adheres to historical performance practice, with Karl Kaiser playing transverse flutes from the early nineteenth century and the string players on instruments with stringing and bows from around 1820.

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Alberto GINASTERA The Piano Music

Michael Korstick

On his latest CPO CD Korstick dedicates himself to the Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera with great passion and virtuosity. This CD, released on the hundredth anniversary of Ginastera’s birth, contains the composer’s complete published piano oeuvre – apart from his Piano Sonata No. 2.

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Gustav MAHLERSymphony No. 9Live-Recording: Munich, Philharmonie im Gasteig, October 2016

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons

The Munich concert staged in October 2016 is now being released on CD by BR-Klassik. It is an outstanding interpretation of one of the most important compositions of symphonic repertoire of the early 20th century.

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GloriaHighlights of sacred choral music

Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons, Peter Dijkstra, Bernard Haitink

The Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks can be heard here performing highlights of sacred choral music dating from the Baroque period to modern times. Even today, three hundred years later, the large oratorio choirs by Bach and Handel are as vivid, realistic and captivating as ever.

James MACMILLANStabat Mater

The Sixteen, Britten Sinfonia, Harry Christophers

Few living composers communicate with the emotional directness of Sir James MacMillan and his belief that ‘beauty is at the heart of our Christian faith’, a view that is profoundly present in his new setting of the Stabat mater. Arguably one of the most powerful poems in the liturgy, only a small number of composers have tackled the Stabat mater in the last 30 years and the musical world has waited a long time for a substantial setting. In James MacMillan’s version we bear witness to a new and intensely personal work that encapsulates the power of the poem in a way no other composer has done to date.

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Johann KUHNAUComplete Sacred Works, Vol. 2

Opella Musica Camerata Lipsiensis, Gregor Meyer

Volume two of the complete sacred works by Johann Kuhnau features première-recordings and offers a multifaceted picture of Kuhnau’s cantata oeuvre. Kuhnau has often been considered merely a forerunner of Johann Sebastian Bach, but as this release demonstrates, he was never lacking in innovative spirit.

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Heinrich SCHEIDEMANNComplete free organ works (complete preludes & fugues); Choral settings

Friedhelm Flamme

CPO’s comprehensive project featuring organ works of the Northern German Baroque is now complete. On the last release Friedhelm Flamme dedicates himself to the complete free organ works, that is, to the complete fugues and preludes, of Heinrich Scheidemann, a composer regarded as one of the cofounders of the Northern German organ school.

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Jozef KOFFLERPiano Works

Spur Österreichisches Ensemble für Neue Musik, Johannes Kalitze

Józef Koffler earned his place in musical history as one of the first Polish and European twelve-tone composers. The investigation of Koffler’s oeuvre has shown that he adopted Schönberg’s method of composition with twelve interrelated tones and applied it in a creative manner. The piano works and String Trio, Op. 10 presented on this CD offer expressive testimony to Koffler’s originality.

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Suor Leonora D’ESTE (1515-1575)

Lucrezia Borgia’s DaughterPrincess, nun and musician – Motets from a 16th century convent

Musica Secreta and Celestial Sirens, Laurie Stras, Deborah Roberts

Suor Leonora d’Este, Lucrezia Borgia’s daughter, left little to illuminate her history, but an obscure book of motets may at least help us understand her musical life: the Musica quinque vo cum motteta materna lingua vocata, published in Venice in 1543. The book is anonymous, but it contains clues to its origins that lead us to the door of Leonora d’Este’s home, perhaps even suggesting that she was its unidentified composer. This music is the earliest published polyphony for nuns, recorded here for the first time, in carefully researched performances.

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Vincenzo BELLINI Adelson e SalviniDaniela Barcellona, Enea Scala, Simone Alberghini, Maurizio Muraro, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Daniele Rustioni

Inspired by Baculard d’Arnaud’s 1772 series of novellas, ‘Les Épreuves du sentiment’, Adelson e Salvini was so popular that the students of the Naples Conservatory performed it every Sunday for a year. Up and coming bel canto specialist Daniele Rustioni leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra in their fourth collaboration with Opera Rara. Opera Rara’s revival of Adelson e Salvini is based on a new critical edition using Bellini’s original score.

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Antonín DVOŘÁKOthello Overture; Symphony No. 6; Symphony No. 7Live concert recordings conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Yannick Nézet-Séguin was Principal Guest Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra from 2008 to 2014 and has become one of the world’s most renowned conductors, currently holding leadership posts with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain. In 2020/21 he will succeed James Levine as the third Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera, New York.

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8 MARCH 2017

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Johann Sebastian BACHSt Matthew Passion

James Gilchrist, Stephan Loges, Hannah Morrison, Zoë Brookshaw, Charlotte Ashley, Reginald Mobley, Eleanor Minney, Hugo Hymas, Ashley Riches, Alex Ashworth, Jonathan Sells, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Kati Debretzeni, Trinity Boys Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner

SDG present a new live recording of Bach’s St Matthew Passion (Matthäuspassion BWV 244), recorded in Pisa Cathedral during the Anima Mundi Festival as part of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra’s 2016 tour. As well as the full sung texts, the booklet includes both a programme note by Sir John Eliot Gardiner as well as his tour notes, written both before and during their 6-month international tour.

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SHOSTAKOVICH: Concerto in C minor, Op. 35; BERG: Chamber Concerto; SAINT-SAENS: Carnival of the Animals

‘ConNotations’ Mei Yi Foo, Ashley Wass, Bartosz Woroch, Philipp Hutter, Britten Sinfonia, Clement Power

Mei Yi Foo explores boundaries between music & cryptography on ConNotations, searching for hidden meanings between the dots and messages woven between the lines. Malaysian pianist Mei Yi is highly regarded for her work with fellow outstanding musicians, and is an acclaimed concert performer. She currently teaches at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and is the recipient of BBC Music Magazine’s Best Newcomer Award.

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Gaudent in CoelisChoral Music by Sally BEAMISH, Judith BINGHAM and Joanna MARSH

The Choirs of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, Edward Wickham

Following their critically acclaimed recording of contemporary carols on Resonus, the Choirs of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge have joined together once more to record portraits of three composers to whom the Choirs of St Catharine’s college have consistently returned - Sally Beamish, Judith Bingham and Joanna Marsh. Containing a number of world-première recordings this collection showcases the great and diverse wealth of recent new choral works.

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Pavel HAAS (1899-1944)

Fata Morgana

Anita Watson, Anna Starvshkevych, Nicky Spence, James Platt, Navarra Quartet, Lada Valešová

Resonus is pleased to present this significant new recording of vocal works by the early-twentieth-century Czech composer, Pavel Haas. Featuring four song cycles composed by Haas at various stages in his life, this captivating album includes the world premiere recording of Fata Morgana, Op. 6 – Haas’s first major work composed following studies with Leoš Janáček in 1922. Pianist Lada Valešová is joined by an exceptional array of singers as well as the acclaimed Navarra Quartet in a vivid portrait of this neglected composer.

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John JOUBERTJane EyreApril Fredrick, David Stout, Mark Milhofer, Gwion Thomas, English Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Woods

With this month’s new release SOMM pays an affectionate tribute to John Joubert who is 90 this month. It also adds a veritable gem to the operatic catalogue: the world première of his 2-Act Opera Jane Eyre recorded live during a concert performance at the Ruddock Performing Arts Centre, Birmingham on 25th October last year.

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John JOUBERTSouth of the Line

Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir, Paul Spicer

SOMM’s celebration of John Joubert’s 90th birthday this month brings to the catalogue yet more new riches, this time no less than seven première recordings of his choral music. South of the Line (together with Autumn Rain) was recorded last June at the Birmingham Conservatoire and commissioned for the opening of the Adrian Boult Hall.

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Johannes BRAHMSRomanzen aus Die Schöne MageloneRoderick Williams, Roger Vignoles

Internationally renowned soloists Roderick Williams and Roger Vignoles join forces for this unique performance of Brahms’ only song cycle, Die Schöne Magelone, Op. 33 as well as his Vier ernste Gesänge, Op. 121. Based on Ludwig Tieck’s novella ‘Wundersame Liebesgeschicte der schönen Magelone und des Grafen Peter aus der Provence’, Brahms’ cycle charmingly sets the mood and motivation of the protagonists at various points during the narrative.

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Liszt of the HarpThe Music of Franz LISZT and Elias PARISH-ALVARS

Ieuan Jones

In 1997 Ieuan Jones was appointed Professor of Harp at the Royal College of Music and in 2016 was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Music. A ’harpist of exceptional musical imagination and stylistic panache’ (The Times) Claudio Records re-releases this 1999 recording: a programme of Franz Liszt and Elias Parish-Alvars.

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Gabriel FAURÉ: Romance, Op. 51; Sonata No. 1, Op. 109; Au bord de l’eau; Sonata No. 2, Op. 117; Après un rêve; Camille SAINT-SAËNS: Romance, Op. 36; Romance, Op. 51; Sonata No. 1, Op. 32; The SwanBrian O’Kane, Michael McHale

Cellist Brian O’Kane and pianist Michael McHale explore the contrast and similarities between the works of Fauré and Saint-Saëns, two composers whom met in a student–teacher relationship that would grow to become an enduring friendship. Since winning first prize at the Windsor International String Competition in 2008, Irish cellist Brian O’Kane has made his debuts with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra under Ashkenazy and in recital at the Wigmore Hall.

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PROKOFIEV, SHOSTAKOVICH, TCHAIKOVSKY, GLAZUNOV, BORODIN, SHCHEDRINRussian MastersJamal Aliyev, Anna Fedorova

Cellist Jamal Aliyev and pianist Anna Fedorova explore the Russian works central to both their musical and family heritages. In the introduction to this new recording Aliyev and Fedorova describe the shared experience of being brought up by parents who were musically schooled in Russia’s Soviet music tradition, lending a special resonance and insight to their performances and collaboration.

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Karol SZYMANOWSKI (1882-1937)

Works for Violin and PianoDuo Brüggen-Plank: Marie Radauer-Plank, Henrike Brüggen

The thrilling contrasts in a composer’s oeuvre are presented by Marie Radauer-Plank and Henrike Brüggen on their first Genuin Classics release. The two artists bring the world of the great Karol Szymanowski – whose anniversary will be commemorated on March 29, 2017 – to life before our ears. His music reflects the spirit of his time while drawing inspiration from ancient sources. It derives its power from the traditions of his homeland, but remains universal.

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Klingende HamburgensienWorks by Johann SCHOP, Georg Philipp TELEMANN, Thomas BALTZAR and Matthias WECKMANN

La Porta Musicale, Gabriele Steinfeld, Anke Dennert

The works by Georg Philipp Telemann and his north German colleagues played by Baroque violinist Gabriele Steinfeld and harpsichordist Anke Dennert, reveal no hint of the coolness associated with the Hanseatic city. The full range of passion from an epoch overflowing with artistic energy is captured by the two musicians, on instruments that were already being played on the Elbe when the young Telemann was establishing himself in the city. The violin from 1680 and harpsichord from 1716 also tell us gripping musical tales by Johann Schop, Matthias Weckmann, and Thomas Baltzar.

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Libero, fragileWorks by Luciano BERIO, Elliott CARTER, György KURTÁG and Jan MÜLLER-WIELAND

Elisabeth Kufferath

Violinist and violist Elisabeth Kufferath sets out on a journey to the heart of sound in her first solo release with Genuin Classics. The programme features works in which leading composers of the 20th and 21st centuries push the two instruments to their outermost limits. And the musician, hailing from Hamburg, takes palpable delight in György Kurtág’s multidimensional sensuality, Luciano Berio’s luminous austerity, and not least, the thrilling discontinuities in two works by Jan Müller-Wieland, which Kufferath presents here in world-première recordings.

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DebutWorks by RAVEL, SCHUBERT, DEBUSSY, CRUIXENT, TANEYEV and HINDEMITH

Shalamov Piano Duo: Alina Shalamov, Nikolay Shalamov

The Shalamov Piano Duo shows us why it was the second piano duo ever to win first prize at the ARD Music Competition. On their Genuin Classics debut release, they have selected repertoire ranging from Schubert’s delightful March to Debussy’s feather-light soundscapes (Petite Suite), Hindemith’s virtuoso keyboard escapades, and the world-première recording of Ferran Cruixent’s Binary, the obligatory work at the competition.

10 MARCH 2017

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Franz SCHUBERT (1797-1828)

Michael Endres plays Franz Schubert4 Impromptus, Op. 90 D 899; 4 Impromptus, Op. 142 D 935; Allegretto in C minor, D 915; Hungarian Melody D 817; Andante in A major D 604; Kupelwieser Waltz D Anh. I, 14

Michael Endres

Leading US critic Richard Dyer (Boston Globe) described Michael Endres as ‘one of the most interesting pianists who appear nowadays on CD’. Endres has recorded a wide-ranging repertoire for Oehms Classics, including CDs with works of Schumann, Mendelssohn, Gershwin, Weber and the sonatas of Arnold Bax. The present CD features works by Franz Schubert, including a special treat entitled the Kupelwieser Waltz.

KlavierduoJohannes BRAHMS (1833-1897): Piano quartet in G minor, Op. 25; Clara SCHUMANN (1819-1896): March in E flat major; Robert SCHUMANN (1810-1856): Pictures from the East, Op. 66

Anna & Ines Walachowski

Anna and Ines Walachowski have long been considered amongst the leading present-day piano duos. For the past two decades the sisters have thrilled audiences on international stages. The present CD is their third issued by Oehms Classics, featuring works by Brahms and Schumann, including the rarely heard Pictures from the East.

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Singer PurBest Of

Singer Pur

The 25th jubilee of Singer Pur simply must include a best of CD at a special price. This double CD offers a wonderful overview of all the albums (except for the Christmas songs) recorded by the ensemble on Oehms Classics.

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Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975)

Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor; Piano Quintet in G minorAlexey Goribol, Ilya Ioff, Lidiya Kovalenko, Andrey Dogadin, Alexey Massarsky

Melodiya presents an album of Dmitri Shostakovich’s chamber music dedicated to the 110th anniversary of the composer’s birth. The Piano Quintet was written in 1940 and became Shostakovich’s first significant achievement in the area of chamber music. The Piano Trio was written during WWII and dedicated to the memory of Ivan Sollertinsky, a distinguished musicologist and lecturer, a man of great erudition and one of Shostakovich’s closest friends.

Vsevolod ZADERATSKY (1891-1953)

24 Preludes and FuguesLukas Geniušas, Andrei Gugnin, Nikita Mndoyants, Ksenia Bashmet, Yury Favorin, Andrei Yaroshinsky

Melodiya presents a premiere of a unique work of 20th century Russian music – 24 Preludes and Fugues by Vsevolod Zaderatsky. A composer, pianist and conductor, Zaderatsky was heavily persecuted by the Soviet regime. However, nothing could crush the man’s mighty craving for creation; he wrote his most substantial work in the period of 1937 to 1939 in a prison camp in Kolyma using telegraph forms as music paper. The 24 Preludes and Fugues were performed for the first time in 2014 in Moscow. Now they have been put on record by a group of top young pianists.

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Hannes RAFFASEDER (b. 1970)

Turning PointsEric Lamb, Julia Maly, Martin Rummel, Stefan Stroissnig

This CD contains a selection of Austrian composer Hannes Raffaseder’s finest chamber pieces, written between 1996 and 2016. Played by outstanding artists Eric Lamb (flute), Julia Maly (violin), Martin Rummel (cello) and Stefan Stroissnig (piano), this is definitely a gem within the chamber music repertoire of contemporary music.

Harald GENZMER (1909-2007)

Works for Trautonium

Peter Pichler

Hard to believe, but it is back again: the Trautonium! Developed in 1930, the death of his only interpreter Oskar Sala in 2002 marked the end of the Trautonium’s history. But, thanks to German composer Peter Pichler, there is a new artist playing concerts with this wonderful instrument, and even recording CDs, like this one. Join him on his trip through the fascinating history of the Trautonium.

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Giovanni Battista FASOLO (1598-1664)

Annuale opera ottava, Venezia 1645Luca Scandali, Ensemble Bella Gerit

Giovanni Battista Fasolo most probably composed his Annuale (organ music for the whole liturgical year) simultaneously with the famous Fiori Musicali by Girolamo Frescobaldi; the Annual, however, would have to wait a decade for its publication in 1645. On this album organist Luca Scandali performs three complete masses at the historic Luca di Bernardino da Cortona (1547) organ accompanied in alternatim by the ensemble Bella Gerit.

John JOUBERT (b. 1927)

Organ MusicTom Winpenny

John Joubert celebrates his 90th birthday on 20 March. He was born in Cape Town in 1927 and settled in Britain after arriving as a student in 1946, and has become a stalwart of British musical life. His organ music, recorded here as part of the 90th-birthday celebrations, ranges from the miniature to the monumental. It often reflects Bach’s influence, and always demonstrates the balance of craftsmanship and honesty of expression that has assured Joubert’s place in the affection of his audiences.

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Kate LODER (1825–1904)

Piano MusicIan Hobson

Kate Loder was a child-prodigy pianist from a family of musicians in Bath, south-west England. She was one of the first students at the Royal Academy of Music in London and one of Britain’s brightest young virtuosi. But Victorian prejudice thwarted a promising career: her well-to-do husband would not allow her to perform in public. Instead, as Lady Thomson, she became an important teacher and society hostess, and continued to compose, including two sets of virtuoso studies that sit downstream from Chopin and Schubert.

David Hackbridge JOHNSON (b. 1963)

Orchestral Music, Volume OneSymphony No. 9 in C sharp minor, Op. 295; Communion Antiphon No. 14, Op. 359 (‘St Boniface, Whitechapel’), Motet No. 2, Op. 257, No. 2

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Mann

The English composer David Hackbridge Johnson has been, until now, one of the best-kept secrets in music. Learning the orchestra from the inside, as a player, he has developed a confident and powerful language inherited in part from Brian, Copland, Janáček, Rubbra, Sibelius, Simpson, Tippett and other such masters. As these three pieces show, his music is capable of bold strokes of colour and gripping dramatic gestures.

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Stephen DODGSON (1924-2013)

Chamber Music, Volume Two: Three QuintetsTippett Quartet, Emma Abbate, Susan Monks

These three quintets by the London-born Stephen Dodgson continue the exploration of his chamber music on Toccata Classics. Dodgson’s musical language inherited something of Shostakovich’s irony, Janáček’s spiky energy and Britten’s polished clarity, occasionally reaching further into the past in passages of Purcellian dignity. All these characteristics are animated with a gentle harmonic warmth of Dodgson’s own.

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Francesco MOLINO (1768-1847)

Sonatas for Guitar and Violin, Op. 2 and Op. 7Luciano Tortorelli, Mauro Tortorelli

Francesco Molino rightfully belongs to the generation of musicians that, in the wave of the general renaissance in the age of the European revolutions, elevated the guitar to the status of concert instrument. This new album is mainly focused on Francesco Molino’s chamber music legacy that the performers Luciano and Mauro Tortorelli manage to capture and deliver to us through the refined simplicity, delicacy and transparency that characterized and distinguished the composer’s work from that of his contemporaries.

Johann Kaspar MERTZBardic SongJens Franke

Jens Franke presents a portrait album of solo guitar works by Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-56), the last of the grand Biedermeier guitarists. From polka to paraphrase, scherzo to song transcription, Mertz was Vienna’s voice of pearly nostalgia. Jens Franke has worked with English National Ballet and was formerly orchestral guitarist of the European Union Youth Orchestra, in which capacity he appeared in concert under Bernard Haitink, playing such venues as the Concertgebouw, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, and Sadler’s Wells.

12 MARCH 2017

RELEASE A

Aribert REIMANN, Hans Werner HENZE, Wolfgang RIHMUnanswered Love

Juliane BanseDeutsche Radio Philharmonie, Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, Christoph Poppen

There is no doubt that the present CD has an especially personal meaning for Juliane Banse, because it celebrates her many years of association with all three composers, Wolfgang Rihm, Aribert Reimann and Hans Werner Henze. Reimann’s Drei Gedichte der Sappho (‘Three Poems by Sappho’) and Rihm’s Aria/Ariadne (a ‘Scenaria’ for soprano and small orchestra) are dedicated to her and the Munich Chamber Orchestra.

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Ying WANGTun TuChamber Music renewed

Nikola Lutz, Teodoro Anzellotti, Ensemble Phoenix Basel, Nina Janßen-Deinzer, Isao Nakamura, MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle musik, Ying Wang

Shaped equally by her roots in China as well as European influences, Ying Wang embodies in an exemplary way the challenges of finding a point of balance between two cultures. She regards as especially fruitful the transferring of techniques from the creation of electronic sounds to acoustic instruments. Nowhere more so than in Tun Tu, where baritone saxophone and electronic sounds interact and come together, embedded in a cosmos of mysterious electronic colourations.

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Adolphe ADAMGiselleRoyal Opera House

Marianela Nuñez, Albrecht Vadim MuntagirovOrchestra of the Royal Opera House, Barry Wordsworth

The quintessential Romantic ballet, Giselle has remained a cornerstone of the classical repertory since its premiere in 1841. Peter Wright’s landmark production for the Royal Ballet does full justice to the work’s emotional and atmospheric power, with John Macfarlane’s designs beautifully capturing the contrast between the human and supernatural worlds.

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Gustav MAHLER (1860-1911)

Das Lied von der Erde

Roberto Saccà, Stephen Gadd, Bamberger Symphoniker, Jonathan Nott

The collaboration between the Bamberger Symphoniker, Jonathan Nott and Tudor began in 2003 with music of farewell, Schubert’s ‘Unfinished’. With the Song of the Earth, the British conductor now says goodbye to his German orchestra, having made history with the recording of Franz Schubert and Gustav Mahler’s symphonies.

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George Frideric HANDELGiulio Cesare: Sarah Connolly, Angelika Kirchschlager, Danielle De Niese, William Christie

Rinaldo: Sonia Prina, Anett Fritsch, Luca Pisaroni, Ottavio Dantone

Saul: Christopher Purves, Iestyn Davies, Lucy Crowe, Ivor Bolton

This set brings together three of Handel’s most compelling works for the stage in lavish Glyndebourne productions featuring period-instrument accompaniment from the renowned Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. David McVicar directs an all-star cast in Giulio Cesare; in Robert Carsen’s fun-filled transformation of Rinaldo lacrosse sticks and flying bicycles lend the fantasy’s warriors and witches contemporary chic; Barrie Kosky’s Glyndebourne debut, Saul, stole the 2015 Festival season and had critics raving.

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Johannes BRAHMSSerenades 1 & 2

Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Jaime Martín

This Ondine recording is the first instalment in a series of Brahms recordings with the Gävle Symphony Orchestra and their chief conductor Jaime Martín. Together with the orchestra Martín offers delightful interpretations of these two early examples of Brahms’ orchestral writing.

SCHUBERT: String Quartet No. 15

HAYDN: String Quartet Op. 20 No. 3

Tetzlaff Quartett

In this new recording the prestigious Tetzlaff Quartett (Christian Tetzlaff, Elisabeth Kufferath, Hanna Weinmeister and Tanja Tetzlaff) present a programme of String Quartets by Franz Schubert and Joseph Haydn in exemplary performances.

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Mali in OakTunde Jegede, Derek Gripper

Two of the world’s most unclassifiable string players join the new Globe Music label to commemorate their sold-out performances in John Williams’ widely acclaimed 2014 and 2015 concert series at Shakespeare’s Globe. Jegede, a master kora player, cellist and composer of Nigerian and Irish decent brings his dynamic and cosmopolitan musical intelligence to bear on the heart of the Malian griot repertoire. South African guitarist Derek Gripper, who has been earning slack-jawed praise from Capetown to Carnegie Hall, has adapted music for the 21-strings of the kora to the 6-string classical guitar.

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Exhibition on Screen: Hieronymus BoschExhibition on Screen’s latest DVD celebrates the life and masterpieces of Hieronymus Bosch, brought together from around the world to his hometown in the Netherlands as a one-off exhibition. With exclusive access to the gallery and the show, this stunning film explores the mysterious, medieval painter who continues to inspire today’s creative geniuses. SEV 196

Johann Sebastian BACHSt. John Passion BWV 245

Live recording, Nuremberg, St. Lorenz Church, ‘ION – Nuremberg International Organ Week’ in March 2015

Maximilian Schmitt, Tareq Nazmi, Christina Landshamer, Anke Vondung,Tilman Lichdi, Krešimir Stražanac, Simona Brüninghaus, Andreas Burkhart, Moon Yung Oh, Andreas Hirtreiter, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Concerto Köln, Peter Dijkstra

This recording of Bach’s St John Passion is now being released on DVD. A concert from the ‘ION – Nuremberg International Organ Week’ in Nuremberg’s St. Lorenz Church, it is enhanced by the film Stories of Hope – Music that Touches the Soul by Melitta Müller-Hansen. 900515

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14 MARCH 2017

RELEASE B

Zara LEVINA (1906-1976)

The Piano ConcertosMaria LettbergRundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Ariane Matiakh

Zara Alexandrovna Levina witnessed two world wars and the Russian Revolution, as well as the collapse and totalitarian reconstruction of her homeland: Ukraine. She lived under the constant pressure of state censorship; remarkably, however, she succeeded in maintaining her unmistakable musical voice. Thirty years separate the composition of her two piano concertos, recorded here.

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Franz LISZT (1811-1886)

Grandes études de Paganini S. 141; Études d’exécution transcendante d’après Paganini S. 140; Variations sur Le Carnaval de Venise de PaganiniWojciech Waleczek

Liszt’s transcriptions and arrangements of Paganini’s etudes occupy a towering position in the piano repertoire. A salute from Liszt to his great contemporary, these works make extraordinary technical demands, Liszt clearly attempting to become the Devil’s pianist, a counterpart to the Devil’s violinist, Niccolò Paganini.

Hanns EISLER (1898-1962)

Hangmen Also Die; The 400 Million; The Grapes of Wrath; Kleine Symphonie; HörfleißübungRundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Johannes Kalitzke

In addition to his Oscar-nominated score for Fritz Lang’s film Hangmen Also Die, this CD contains some rarely heard works by Schoenberg pupil, Hanns Eisler. The programme demonstrates the approach he developed towards twelve-tone technique and how it played a surprisingly important role in the field of film and orchestral music.

Franz DOPPLER (1821-1883), Carl DOPPLER (1826-1900)

The Complete Flute Music, Vol. 2Claudi Arimany, János Bálint, Karl-Heinz Schütz, Shigenori Kudo, Ingrid Kertesi, Joan Espina, Alan Branch, Orquesta Sinfónica Ciudad de Elche, Leonardo Martínez

The Doppler brothers played a dominant role in the Imperial-Royal Monarchy’s musical life as composers, conductors, musicians and orchestral soloists. This is the second release in a 10-CD cycle of the Dopplers’ complete music for flute, including various arrangements. Flautist Claudi Arimany spent decades researching this project, inspiring many famous musicians to become involved in its realisation.

Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1897)

Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45

Mari Anne Häggander, Siegfried LorenzRundfunkchor Leipzig, Jörg-Peter Weigle, Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel

Alfred SCHNITTKE (1934-1998)

Hieronymus Bosch Fragments; Piano Concerto; Sonata for Violin; Suite in the Old Style

Alexander Ghindin, Dmitri Kortchak, Moscow Virtuosi, Vladimir Spivakov

Joseph HAYDN (1732-1809)

The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross, HOB. III. 50-56 (Op. 51, Nos. 1-7)

Camerata Academica Des Mozarteums Salzburg, Sándor Végh

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Georg Philipp TELEMANN (1681-1767)

St Matthew Passion 1746

Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max C8012

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Johannes BRAHMS: Piano Quintet; Robert SCHUMANN: String Quartet No. 1

Pacifica Quartet, Menahem Pressler

The internationally celebrated, Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet here joins forces with legendary pianist Menahem Pressler. The disc features Johannes Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34, a work that Pressler has performed on many occasions, but never recorded. This pillar of German Romanticism is paired with a string quartet by Brahms’ champion: Robert Schumann. The Pacifica Quartet has been performing the String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 41 since early in its career. Dedicated to Mendelssohn, this buoyant, sprightly Romantic quartet showcases the Pacifica’s virtuosity and exuberant performance style while offering a contrast to Brahms’s moodier masterwork.

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MademoisellePremière AudienceUnknown Music of Nadia BOULANGER

Nicole Cabell, Alek Shrader, Edwin Crossley-Mercer, Amit Peled, François-Henri Houbart, Lucy Mauro

Delos has the tremendous honour of issuing the first-ever album devoted to the wonderful compositions of Nadia Boulanger: truly a release of great historical importance. Music lovers everywhere can now hear Boulanger’s complete works, published and unpublished (including 13 world premieres), in the genres of art song, solo piano, cello and piano, and organ, as performed by an all-star array of musicians.

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Edvard GRIEGThe Violin SonatasHaik Kazazyan, Philipp Kopachevsky

In Haik Kazazyan’s first album for Delos, Opera Fantasies, the brilliant Armenian violin virtuoso demonstrated the fiery, passionate, and technically astonishing sides of his artistry. And the same musical virtues are certainly on display here, in his glowing rendition of the three violin sonatas by the Norwegian master Edvard Grieg.

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Andreas WILLSCHER (b. 1955)

Organ Symphony No. 5Carson Cooman

Andreas Willscher’s organ works are extremely varied, often involving a mélange of post-tonal modernism, minimalism, jazz and rock elements. His Organ Symphony No. 5 is a largely peaceful and meditative piece composed on a grand scale; the symphony is subtitled ‘On Francis’ Preaching on Holy Poverty’ and is a reflection on the life and teaching of St. Francis of Assisi. This is Carson Cooman’s first recording for Divine Art as performer, although the label has already released six CDs of Cooman compositions with many more planned.

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Arnold SCHOENBERG: Das Buch der hängenden Gärten, Op. 15

Seóirse BODLEY: A GirlAylish Kerrigan, Dearhbla Collins

Schoenberg’s seminal vocal work Das Buch der hängenden Gärten was composed in 1908-1909 – years in which he had taken dissonance to new limits, and turned completely to atonality. This cycle is often regarded as the first major modernist vocal work. It is coupled here by Seóirse Bodley’s A Girl, a cycle of 22 settings of poems by Brendan Kennelly, first performed in 1978. Aylish Kerrigan is one of the foremost interpreters of contemporary Irish vocal music, and of Brecht, and her one-woman Broadway-style shows won acclaim when given in New York, Paris, Berlin and Dublin.

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Rhona CLARKE (b. 1958)

A Different GameThe Fidelio Trio

Rhona Clarke’s work is eclectic, brilliant and varied – from relatively ‘tough’ constructs, to tonal works with influences of jazz. Her Piano Trio No. 2 appeared on the previous Métier release Dancing in Daylight, prompting one reviewer to hope for a whole album devoted to her work – here it is. As well as three full pieces for Piano Trio, there are three for members of the ensemble. Apart from the said No. 2 Trio, all the works here are receiving premiere recordings.

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Cello Tales Ensemble Chiaroscuro, Perikli Pite, Craig Marchitelli, Roberta Invernizzi

Like Ensemble Chiaroscuro’s previous album, also produced by Concerto Classics: Baroque Enchantment, the artists have curated a programme that tells a story in music, hence the title Cello Tales. The listener will be led, through the performance of cellist Antonio Fantinuoli, on a journey of rediscovery of the great masters and pioneers of the cello, unearthed by careful research of ancient manuscripts, also undertaken by Fantinuoli. From Giovanni Battista Degli Antonii and Giovanni Battista Vitali, to Domenico Gabrielli and Luigi Boccherini, we can experience the technical evolution of the cello, including a tribute to the ‘father’ of all cellists: J. F. Dotzauer.

16 MARCH 2017

RELEASE B

Francesco CAVALLI (1602-1676)

Vespero della Beata Vergine; Antifone Mariane e SonateClaudio Monteverdi Choir of Crema, La Pifarescha Instrumental Ensemble, Bruno Gini

The Vespero della Beata Vergine completes the recording of the works contained in the collection of eight-voice Vespers published in 1675. This is the first complete recording of the trilogy, a masterpiece by Francesco Cavalli, whom proves himself to be a worthy heir of Claudio Monteverdi. The performance is in the authoritative hands of the Coro Monteverdi di Crema and the La Pifarescha ensemble conducted by Bruno Gini, one of Italy’s greatest specialists in Cavalli’s sacred music.

SKRJABIN, DEBUSSY, SATIE, FAURÉ, POULENC, SZYMANOWSKI, GRANADOS, MOMPOU, TOCH

Bridges to BeyondAntoinette Van Zabner

Antoinette van Zabner, born in Austria and raised in the United States, presents a selection of largely peaceful and calm piano pieces by composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Gabriel Fauré, Alexander Skrjabin, Federico Mompou and Ernst Toch.

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Ludwig van BEETHOVENThe Piano Trios, Vol. 4TrioVanBeethoven

Volume 4 of the complete recordings of Beethoven’s piano trios by the Austrian TrioVanBeethoven opens with the Trio Op. 1/3 in C minor. Preceding this last work of the group of piano trios Op. 1 were a great number of uncounted works and sketches like the Variations Op. 44, the first drafts of which can be dated back to as early as the year 1792.

Luis A. CALVO, Ernesto NAZARETH, Astor PIAZZOLLA, Alberto GINASTERALatin American Piano MusicPablo Rojas

On his new album Colombian-born pianist Pablo Rojas presents piano music from five Latin-American countries. These diverting pieces tell of the history of South America, Spanish and Portuguese reign and the incorporation of Indigenous and African culture.

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Franz SCHUBERTThe Piano TriosThomas Albertus Irnberger, David Geringas, Michael Korstick

This new interpretation by violinist Thomas Albertus Irnberger with David Geringas and Michael Korstick illustrates the considerable influence Beethoven had on Schubert. Similar effects can be observed with the Notturno D 897, in contrast to the Trio Movement Allegro D 28 that, being an early work, exhibits closer ties to Mozart.

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Saverio MERCADANTE (1795-1870)

Francesca da RiminiLeonor Bonilla, Aya Wakizono, Merto Süngü, Antonio Di Matteo, Larisa Martinez, Ivan Ayon RivasOrchestra Internazionale d’Italia, Chorus of the Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra of Cluj-Napoca, Fabio Luisi

Although written almost two centuries ago Saverio Mercadante’s Francesca da Rimini was, in fact, never staged. The long forgotten manuscript, remembered only for its history of bad luck, suddenly re-emerged five years ago in Madrid, the city where it was to have been premièred in 1831. The soprano Leonor Bonilla (Francesca) is most impressive in the title role, drawing on a solid vocal technique and delivering incredible inflections and, dazzling vocal lines.

Gaziza ZHUBANOVA, Arman ZHAIYMKazakh Classical Music; 3 String QuartetsThe Kazakh State String Quartet

The two string quartets of the important composer and music teacher Gaziza Zhubanova, as well as the quartet debut of the promising up-and-coming composer Arman Zhaiym, are the focus of this new cultural bridge-building production – realised on the 25th anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan in December 2016.

MARCH 2017 17

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KOMITAS (1869-1935)

Piano and Chamber MusicMikael Ayrapetyan, Vladimir Sergeev

Komitas was one of the first Armenian musicians to undergo classical Western musical training. He published both folksong collections and writings on Armenian Church melodies, and his work laid the foundations for the development of a clearly defined national musical style. The Seven Folk Dances evoke the specific timbres of Armenian instruments, the Seven Songs for Piano are fleeting and lyrical while the Twelve Children’s Pieces based on folk-themes are beautifully crisp.

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More information: http://www.naxos.com/ecard/grandpiano/GP720/

Catalogue number: GP720Dealer Price: £9.00

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KOMITAS was one of the first Armenian musicians to undergo classical Western musical training, in Berlin, in addition to music education in his own country. He published both folksong collections and writings on Armenian church melodies, and his work laid the foundations for the development of a clearly defined national musical style. The Seven Folk Dances evoke the specific timbres of Armenian instruments, the Seven Songs for Piano are fleeting and lyrical while the Twelve Children’s Pieces based on folk-themes are beautifully crisp. Msho-Shoror is one of the most ancient of all Armenian dances.

• SEVEN FOLK DANCES (1916)

• SEVEN SONGS FOR PIANO (1911) *

• TWELVE CHILDREN’S PIECES BASED ON FOLK-THEMES (1910)

• MSHO-SHOROR (1906)

• SEVEN PIECES FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO (1899-1911) *

* WORLD PREMIÈRE RECORDINGS

MIKAEL AYRAPETYAN was born in 1984 in Yerevan, Armenia, where he had his early schooling. His repertoire ranges from the baroque to the contemporary and includes rarely performed works of Armenian composers, whose music had not until then been performed. He is actively engaged in the popularisation of Armenian classical music, organising concerts in major concert-halls of the world, and acting as producer, art director and pianist for these performances. Mikael Ayrapetyan’s previous recordings for Grand Piano of piano works by Abramian and Bagdasarian were met with critical acclaim.

VLADIMIR SERGEEV was born in 1985 in Yaroslavl and started to learn the violin at the age of six. In 1996 he won his first prize in a regional competition for young violinists and in 2000 entered the Academic Music College of the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory as a student of People’s Artist of Georgia M.L. Yashvili. He was also trained by Yashvili at the Moscow Conservatory from 2004 to 2009, and in postgraduate studies until 2012. During his training, he became a laureate of the All-Russian competitions of Belgorod (1999) and Ryazan (2000) and in 2009 won the international St Petersburg competition.

KOMITAS (KOMITAS VARDAPET) (1869-1935)PIANO AND CHAMBER MUSIC

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Leopold KOŽELUCH (1747-1818)

Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 8Kemp English

For forty years the Bohemian composer Leopold Koželuch produced a sequence of keyboard sonatas that some commentators preferred to those of his great contemporary, Mozart. The four sonatas on Volume 8 exemplify Koželuch’s vitality and expressive breadth. Sonatas Nos. 31 and 32, published in the year of Mozart’s death, are notable for their exploration of new technical devices and a daring harmonic palette worthy of Clementi.

Jean ROGER-DUCASSE (1873-1954)

Piano WorksJoel Hastings

Jean Roger-Ducasse was a close friend of Debussy and a composer of considerable reputation in his day, one critic declaring that ‘all the best qualities of the French musician are combined in him – an abundantly rich imagination, clear and deep thought… and unerring taste’. These qualities are found in piano works that range from exquisitely colourful wartime pieces such as Sonorités, the playfully virtuosic games of Rhythmes, and in Barcarolles both dreamy and dramatic.

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Grand PianoThe Key Collection

Three Centuries of Rare Keyboard GemsThe Grand Piano label is dedicated to exploring undiscovered piano repertoire by unfamiliar composers, producing high quality, often world-première recordings, performed by virtuoso authorities in their chosen field. Marking the label’s 5th anniversary, this collection is a comprehensive guide through the history of keyboard music from the invention of the fortepiano to today’s living composers, as well as taking the listener on a musical adventure through a geographically global range of rare musical gems.

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Johann STRAUSS: Schatz-Walzer, Op. 418, arr. Anton WEBERN; Johann STRAUSS: Kaiser-Walzer, Op. 437, arr. Arnold SCHÖNBERG; Gustav MAHLER: Symphony No. 4, arr. Erwin STEIN

Christiane Karg, Renaud Capuçon, Katja Lämmermann, Antoine Tamestit, Clemens Hagen, Alois Posch, Magali Mosnier, Sebastian Manz, Albrecht Mayer, Herbert Schuch, Gereon Kleiner, Leonhard Schmidinger, Martin Grubinger

The fact that this rare gem – a chamber-music version of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony by the Schoenberg pupil Erwin Stein – was considered lost and was only brought back into the repertory in 1993 thanks to a great deal of effort is astounding (even more so considering the relative success it has enjoyed since that time). The work is complimented here by two irresistible, slightly quirky, distorted Strauss waltzes by Webern and Schoenberg.

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VerismoKrassimira StoyanovaMünchner Rundfunkorchester, Pavel Baleff

On her brand new album Bulgarian soprano Krassimira Stoyanova turns her attention to verismo – in the broadest sense of the word. Again and again she lends those roles by Puccini, Mascagni, Cilea, Giordano and Catalani with her inimitably nuanced and finely resonant lirico spinto soprano, a voice that is both flexible and capable of the highest notes while possessing an enchanting sonority and profound middle range. As with her two previous albums on Orfeo, she is accompanied by the Munich Radio Orchestra under Pavel Baleff with great sensitivity and intensity

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Alexey Wladimirowich STANCHINSKY (1888-1914)

Twelve Sketches, Op. 1; Preludes First Sonata Songs without WordsEkaterina Derzhavina

‘I believe that Stanchinsky’s time will come, the time of this mysterious man’s music, which unites the childish, the naive… a fascination with folk art and folk life, the edginess and sophistication of the Russian Silver Age, the opposites of simplicity and subtleness’ – Ekaterina Derzhavina.

18 MARCH 2017

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Caleb BURHANS, Caroline SHAW, Timo ANDRES, John Luther ADAMSThrive on RoutineAmerican Contemporary Music Ensemble

‘In many ways, this album represents the debut recording of ACME. The collection of pieces here was chosen for very pure and simple reasons; each work is a piece we love and to which we feel quite intimately connected. The performance of this music is an expression of affection and closeness, not just to each other as performers, but also to the composer who wrote it. Three of the four composers featured are also performers in ACME’ – Clarice Jensen, ACME Cellist & Artistic Director.

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Valgeir SIGURÐSSON, Úlfur HANSSON, Hlynur AÐILS VILMARSSONRaindamageNordic Affect

Icelandic ensemble Nordic Affect has been hailed for its ‘affectionate explorations’ (BBC Music Magazine) and ‘commitment to their repertoire’ (Classical Music). This album is the fruit of artistic collaboration that led to the creation of V A R P, an installation room that invites you into the nesting site of Raindamage: a space for ecological navigation. V A R P had its premiere in November 2016 in Sweden.

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Saverio MERCADANTE (1795-1870)

Francesca da RiminiStaged by Pier Luigi Pizzi; Recorded at the Palazzo Ducale, Martina Franca, Italy – July 2016

Leonor Bonilla, Aya Wakizono, Merto Süngü, Antonio Di Matteo, Larisa Martinez, Ivan Ayon RivasOrchestra Internazionale d’Italia, Chorus of the Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra of Cluj-Napoca, Fabio Luisi

Although written almost two centuries ago Saverio Mercadante’s Francesca da Rimini was, in fact, never staged. A long series of incidents prevented it from reaching production until 185 years after its composition. The long forgotten manuscript, remembered only for its history of bad luck, suddenly re-emerged five years ago in Madrid, the city where it was to have been premièred in 1831. The soprano Leonor Bonilla (Francesca) is most impressive in the title role: she portrays the character’s psychological frailty as well as her determination, drawing on a solid vocal technique and delivering incredible inflections and confident, dazzling vocal lines that easily soar into her high register.

SAINT-SAËNS, GERSHWINSviatoslav Richter Concert, 1993

Sviatoslav RichterRadio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Christoph Eschenbach

This is the only available recording of Sviatoslav Richter playing Gershwin’s Concerto in F, making it a unique document of his expansive musical repertoire. March 17 marks the re-release of this SWR Music bestseller.

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RAVEL, TAILLEFERRE, BOULANGER, FRANÇAIXFrench Piano ConcertosFlorian UhligDeutsche Radio Philharmonie, Pablo González

In 2013 Florian Uhlig released a recording of French Piano concertos on SWR Music that received excellent reviews all over the world and became one of that year’s bestsellers for the label. Here, Florian Uhlig is again accompanied by the German Radio Philharmonic under Pablo González – a collaboration that made his first recording of French Piano concertos a huge success.

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Théâtre du Soleil, Ariane Mnouchkine

Following the Champ de Mars massacre on July 17th 1791, some comedians decided to re-enact the main events of the previous years. With intense zest and enthusiasm, they show the dashing of hopes and the bursting of joy followed by the collapse of the dreams of equality, using pantomime, tragedy, puppetry and opera buffa. This original documentary retraces the show and the movie’s creation, and includes an interview with Ariane Mnouchkine.

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Giuseppe VERDI (1813-1901)

Un Ballo in mascheraStaged by Johannes Erath at the Bayerische Staatsoper, March 2016

Piotr Beczala, George Petean, Anja Harteros, Okka von der Damerau, Sofia FominaBayerisches Staatsorchester, Zubin Mehta

Ten years after stepping down as music director of the Bavarian State Opera, Zubin Mehta returned to Munich in March 2016 to celebrate his 80th birthday, conducting Verdi’s masterpiece Un Ballo in maschera for the first time in a staged production. His cast features some of today’s finest Verdi singers: soprano Anja Harteros, singing Amelia for the first time and ‘filling every note with Verdian intensity’, tenor Piotr Beczala as a ‘visually and vocally dashing Riccardo’ and George Petean as an ‘exemplary’ Renato (Neue Musikzeitung). In director Johannes Erath’s super-sensitive new production, this historically-based tale of illicit love, conspiracy and betrayal unfolds in a surrealistic, shadowy setting transformed by lighting and projections.

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MOZART, GOUNOD, BEETHOVEN, VERDI, DELIBES, DONIZETTI, OFFENBACH, ROSSINIOpern Gala – Highlights of the OperaRecorded at the Opernhaus Bonn, 2016

Simone Kermes, Julia Novikova, Roberto De Biasio, Marina Prudenskaya, Ingeborg Gillebo, Davide Luciano, Chiara Skerath, Robin Johannsen, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Opernchor des Theater Bonn, Stefan Blunier

Excerpts from the musical programme of the Fifth Opera Gala for the German AIDS Foundation on 21 May 2016 at the Bonn Opera House. Featuring renowned singers like Simone Kermes, Roberto De Biasio and Robin Johannsen.

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Franz SCHUBERT (1797-1930)

WinterreiseVisualised by William Kentridge; Recorded at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, France, July 2015

Matthias Goerne, Markus Hinterhäuser

Franz Schubert´s Winterreise engages with its audience in a new and unexpected form. Matthias Goerne, ‘the voice of perfection’ (Le Figaro), pianist Markus Hinterhäuser and South African director, set designer and theatrical artist William Kentridge join forces on stage and trace newly imagined, deeply moving images. A memorable meeting ‘of melancholy and magic’ (La Marseillaise). ‘Mr. Kentridge’s 24 stop-action films – made up of animated ink drawings and collages – offer a visually mesmerising and thought-provoking commentary on Schubert’s song cycle’ (New York Times). ‘There is an unusual robustness to his (Matthias Goerne´s) wanderer, infused by the virile beauty of his powerful baritone’ (New York Times).

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Sergei PROKOFIEV (1891-1953)

Romeo & JulietChoreography by Helgi Tomasson; Recorded 7th May 2015 at the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco; Bonus: Shakespeare Without Words, En Garde, Children of the San Francisco Ballet

Maria Kochetkova, Davit Karapetyan, San Francisco Ballet & Orchestra, Martin West

With passionate choreography, spine-tingling swordsmanship, and a celebrated score by Sergei Prokofiev, San Francisco Ballet’s passionate retelling of the Bard’s greatest tragedy has packed houses around the world. Romeo & Juliet is one of the company’s most popular and widely toured ballets and has been seen by more than 200,000 people since it premiered in 1994. Choreographed by Helgi Tomasson, with sets and costumes by Jens-Jacob Worsaae, the visually stunning production brings this powerful and touching tragedy – and Renaissance-era Verona – vividly to life. ‘Tomasson lifts Shakespeare’s complex and familiar language off the gilded pages and translates it into lucid classical choreography that is visceral, fresh, and ultimately sublime’ (Huffington Post).

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Astor PIAZZOLLA, Lalo SCHIFRIN, Alberto GINASTERATango under the StarsLive recording at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, 2 August 2016; Bonus: Interviews with Gustavo Dudamel, Lalo Schifrin and Ángel Romero

Ángel Romero, Tango Buenos Aires, LA Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel

Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic accent the colours, rhythms, and passion of music by leading composers from Argentina in this invigorating live performance from the Hollywood Bowl. Master of the Tango Nuevo, Astor Piazzolla’s four tangos feature the dance company Tango Buenos Aires, known worldwide as the most authentic and uncompromising representative of the tango. Alberto Ginastera, Piazzolla’s first teacher, is also represented on this brand new release from C Major Entertainment, along with Lalo Schifrin, whom, beside his concert music, is the composer of the famous scores of Mission Impossible and Dirty Harry. His Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra, a world-premiere recording, is composed for Ángel Romero, an iconic master of the classical guitar.

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